The Chieftains - The Making of The Long Black Veil

Rating:
Summary: Not a concert DVD but a decent documentary
Review: This DVD is better left as a video documentary of the people who fuel that great Chieftains sound. It is not a concert DVD and songs are heard in snatches rather than in whole. There are interesting interviews with the members of the band as well as artists who collaborated on The Black Veil album, especially Sting. This does prove in a pleasant fashion that musicians who lead quiet lives, who do not engage in substance abuse, egotism, vulgarity or vandalism, can be fascinating and worth attending to. The discussion is intelligent and not the least bit sentimental or melodramatic like VH1's Behind the Music series. In the end, though, little use is put to the DVD technology and it is frustrating not to hear the songs in their entirety. I have to wonder if that was the plan all along or if copyright and permissions issues defeated a more musical approach.